Slaughter

His physical strength and speed doubled again!

Amid more than a hundred killers, he became a gale of death!

Bang! Crack! Squelch!

The dull thuds of fists striking flesh!

The sharp cracks of breaking bones!

The wet sounds of blades tearing through flesh!

They intertwined into a symphony from hell!

No cursed technique!

No cursed energy!

Nothing but overwhelming brute force!

One killer holding a machine gun didn't even have time to pull the trigger.

Yagami Jue split him and his gun in two with a single knife-hand strike!

A Curse User tried to block him with defensive jujutsu.

Yagami Jue blasted both his shield and his head into a mist of blood with one punch!

In less than three minutes.

Inside the alley.

Blood flowed like a river.

Severed limbs lay scattered across the ground.

The hundred-plus killers and Curse Users who had arrived so menacingly.

Had all become cold corpses!

[Ding! Killed 50 beginner Curse Users! Obtained 5 million yen!]

[Ding! Killed 30 intermediate Curse Users! Obtained 15 million yen!]

[Ding! Killed 20 elite killers! Obtained 20 million yen!]

The system's notification chimes rang out in a frenzy.

An intensely excited smile spread across Yagami Jue's blood-soaked face.

"40 million!"

"I just made 40 million in one go!"

Yagami Jue stood amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, reeking of nauseating gore and radiating terrifying killing intent.

He was like a true Asura!

"Who's next?"

Yagami Jue raised his head and looked into the dense darkness deep in the alley.

"Since you're here, stop skulking around."

"Come at me together. I don't have all day."

"Clap... clap... clap..."

A series of crisp claps came from the darkness.

Then.

A man wearing white hunting robes and an eerie mask slowly stepped out.

Behind him.

Followed three more Curse Users, each radiating the terrifying aura of a Special Grade!

"What a spectacular display of slaughter, Yagami Jue."

The masked man's voice carried a spine-chilling rasp.

"No wonder someone is willing to pay 500 million for your life."

"That body of yours, devoid of cursed energy, truly is a rare work of art."

Yagami Jue narrowed his eyes.

The dangerous aura emanating from these four.

Was a hundred times more terrifying than that of all those hundred-odd small fry combined!

"You're the client who posted the bounty?"

Yagami Jue sneered.

"The client?"

The masked man shook his head.

"No, I'm merely a dog taking orders from the higher-ups."

"The ones who truly want you dead are those big shots among the Jujutsu Higher-Ups."

"They won't allow a second Toji Fushiguro to exist in this world."

The masked man slowly drew the katana at his waist, its blade shimmering with the sickly green glow of a deadly poisonous curse.

"So."

"To preserve the balance of Jujutsu Society."

"Please die, little monster."

The instant he finished speaking!

The three Special Grade Curse Users behind the Masked Man unleashed terrifying cursed energy!

Boom!

They became three blurs, charging at Yagami Jue from three different directions and cutting off every escape route!

"The higher-ups?"

Yagami Jue burst into wild laughter.

"You think a few lapdogs like you can kill me?!"

"System!"

"Take the 40 million I just earned!"

"And put every last yen into strength!"

[Ding!]

[Successfully deducted 40 million yen!]

[Strength +4,000! Current strength: 10,610!]

BOOM-!!!!!

At that very instant.

It was as though a Supernova had detonated inside Yagami Jue's body!

10,610 points of strength!

He had broken through the ten-thousand mark!

Before he had even begun to exert himself, the concrete beneath his feet could no longer withstand the terrifying gravitational field his body naturally emitted.

It caved inward, forming a massive crater over ten meters across!

Defying the laws of physics, the surrounding rubble slowly floated into the air under that terrifying force field!

"Wh... what kind of monster is this?!"

The three Special Grade Curse Users who had been charging forward so aggressively.

Felt that almost tangible, terrifying pressure, and their pupils abruptly shrank to pinpoints!

Their charging bodies came to a forced halt in midair!

"This isn't strength a human could possibly possess!"

"Fall back!"

One Special Grade Curse User who specialized in defense frantically mobilized every bit of cursed energy in his body, forming an obsidian cursed energy shield half a meter thick in front of him.

But it was too late.

"Fall back?"

Standing in the center of the crater, Yagami Jue slowly raised his head.

His deep black eyes gleamed with a brutality that surpassed even a vicious demon's.

"Even if you flee to hell, you're still going to take this 40-million-yen punch head-on!"

Whoosh!

His staggering 11,552 points of speed erupted!

Without even leaving an afterimage on their retinas, Yagami Jue appeared out of thin air in front of the defensive Special Grade Curse User!

"Die!"

He used no technique to channel his strength.

It was nothing but the simplest, purest straight punch!

BOOOOM-!!!!!!

His fist shot forward!

The air in front of it was forcibly blasted apart, forming a visible, spiraling white vacuum tunnel!

That obsidian cursed energy shield, strong enough to withstand an antitank missile.

Met that force of over ten thousand strength points.

And failed to hold it back for even a thousandth of a second!

Crack!

Like a flimsy toy made of paper, it instantly shattered into powder that filled the air!

Then.

That fist, like the grim reaper's hammer, continued unabated and slammed squarely into the Special Grade Curse User's chest!

Squelch!

There was no scream.

No struggle.

Under the terrifying kinetic force of that punch, the Special Grade Curse User's upper body.

Was blasted straight into a crimson mist!

Only two severed legs remained, collapsing limply into a pool of blood.

One punch!

An instant kill on a Special Grade!

He had crushed the man along with his strongest defensive cursed technique, as easily as squashing an ant!

"Gulp..."

The masked man standing in the distance swallowed with difficulty.

His sword hand began shaking uncontrollably.

"That's impossible..."

"The intel said he'd only shattered an incomplete Special Grade with one punch..."

"But this... this was a long-established Special Grade Curse User! And he turned him into blood mist with one punch?!"

The remaining two Special Grade Curse Users were scared out of their wits!

One Curse User who specialized in speed didn't even spare his companion's corpse a glance before turning to flee.

"I don't want to die! There's no way to fight this! I'm out!"

"Trying to leave?"

Yagami Jue sneered, and his figure vanished again.

"I haven't made enough money yet!"

Bang!

With an explosive crack as he broke the sound barrier.